cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
This scrumptious, nutritious breakfast smoked haddock dish is the perfect way to start the day. Change the way you ‘sea’food with Seafood Week – a recipe in collaboration with Seafish. Breakfast. They say it’s the most important meal of the day, so it’s important to make this meal nutritious and a source of slow-release …
This simple recipe for tomato and basil pasta sauce uses storecupboard ingredients, including basil-infused Italian olive oil, and is ready in under 10 minutes! Serve with your favourite pasta and toppings. Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes Difficulty: Easy Is pasta the ultimate comfort food? A bowl of hot pasta in tomato sauce …
Albert Bartlett, the UK’s leading fresh potato supplier, is celebrating their 70th anniversary. To help celebrate, I’ve recreated a popular recipe from the 1970s, when the Indian takeaway in the UK began to surge in popularity: saag aloo, or spinach & potato curry. In collaboration with Albert Bartlett. About Albert Bartlett In 1948 Albert …
Yomp and Chomp your way through Southampton and its history! Are you hungry for food and culture in Southampton? Join their Food and Heritage tour of Southampton’s most delicious venues. The four-hour Southampton Yomp and Chomp Walking Tour Experience is led by local, entertaining people and you will have a multi-sensory experience so you can see, taste, hear, …
These light and fluffy oatmeal pancakes are easy to make and taste delicious topped with a strawberry yogurt-maple syrup drizzle. In collaboration with Onken. My kids absolutely love pancakes (or crepes, depending on if it’s myself or my husband making them!). I like to make thick, fluffy, American style pancakes (while he makes thin European-style …
This French-style strawberry yogurt cake is incredibly easy to make and is a great way to use up the last of a pot of strawberry yogurt. It’s a perfect weekend bake, and great with a cuppa! Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes Difficulty: Easy This is the perfect cake for a lazy Saturday …
Packed full of protein and delicious flavour, this quick and easy post-workout protein shake is made with Onken 0% Fat Strawberry yogurt. In collaboration with Onken. Protein shakes are a regular part of my diet. My morning routine consists of getting up (sometimes way too early!) and two cups of milky coffee while catching up on …
These easy apple muffins are made with crisp green apples, walnuts & warming cinnamon and have a delicious cinnamon-walnut streusel topping; perfect for brunch. In collaboration with Barleycup. #BakingWithBarleycup #ad Ah, lazy weekend mornings. We look forward to them all week – the notion of sipping a hot drink in your favourite chair next to …
Win a selection of Chantelly Finest Belgian Chocolates worth €30 including 500 grams of handmade Belgian pralines, 200 grams of mendiants studded with fruit and nuts, 200 grams of homemade hazelnut dragées with milk chocolate and 90 grams of dark chocolate pearls. Simply fill out the Rafflecopter form at the bottom of this post! Chantelly – the …
Don’t let those chicken bones go to waste after you’ve roasted a whole chicken – make a nourishing bone broth to sip from a mug, or to use in soups and stews for later. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 4 hours Difficulty: Easy Bone broth for recovery I have been making my own homemade …
Ready in under 20 minutes, this is a deliciously quick & easy midweek dinner recipe. The original recipe comes from the home economics department in the Anderson High School, Shetland Islands and was demonstrated on stage by my teenage son at the Shetland Food Fair. I was tidying up the kitchen the other day, organizing …
The Eufy RoboVac 11 is Amazon’s best-selling, best-rated and best-valued robotic vacuum. We were sent one for review purposes. Find out what we thought below, and grab your exclusive discount code too! I don’t mind blowing my own trumpet here, but I can be pretty good at some things. Housework is not one of these things. …
Neutral 0% is the number one sensitive skincare brand in Scandinavia, with a range of products designed especially for sensitive skin that will still get the cleaning job done. In this post, we review two of their laundry products. Have you ever heard of dermatographia? The word means ‘skin writing’ (aka dermographism and dermatographic urticaria) and I’ve …
Situated in the former Customs House at the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour, the recently renovated Silver Darling has a seasonal menu created to embrace their unique location and to showcase the very best in Scottish food. In collaboration with Visit Aberdeenshire. The Silver Darling restaurant is situated in the old Customs House at the mouth …
Hearty and filling, this traditional soup from the wild and remote Shetland Islands is made from reestit mutton, a salted and brined preserved mutton unique to the islands. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 2 hours Difficulty: Easy Calling Shetland home Come this Spring I’ll have called Shetland home for twenty years. Seven of those …
I had the idea for this post recently while watching the orca videos I’d filmed with my iPhone last year. I was going to research and write my own post about Shetland orca sightings, and I asked my friend Nick of Southspear Media & Surveys Ltd, for a quote to include. He came back with …
Dinner’s on us! Grower’s Pride is trialling a new range of meal kits available through Amazon Fresh and Morrisons. Enter to win one of their Madras Curry Meal Kits below! ‘Growers Pride’ is an own-label brand owned by the multi-national Greenyard Group. The brand was established by Greenyard in the UK in June 2016, but …
Ready-made puff pastry and sun-dried tomato pesto pair with fresh mozzarella cheese for a quick & easy midweek supper or after-school snack ready in under 20 minutes. In collaboration with Sacla. The kids go back to school tomorrow! Not that I’m counting down the hours or anything, but it’s tomorrow!! It’s been a rather fantastic …
Events over the last ten months have significantly changed my life, but I received some good news recently and to celebrate, I bought myself a new, limited edition Shetland-designed skirt. This is my first ever fashion post, I hope you like it! Two in a million, my surgeon said to me recently. That’s how often my …
This low carb, high protein, gluten-free cauliflower pizza crust tastes fantastic, and it comes in at just 220 calories for an entire pizza for one! No microwave needed! I’d always been put off the notion of making a cauliflower pizza crust, up until recently. Truth be told, cauliflower was not one of my most favourite …
